Google picks home services startup Taskbob for its launchpad programme

Taskbob provides a range of home services like home cleaning, car spa, handymen services, drivers, appliance repair and maids.

TOI Tech

May 17, 2016, 07:13 IST

NEW DELHI: Google has picked up Mumbai-based home services startup Taskbob for its Launchpad accelerator programme at its headquarters in California. The platform aims to support startups through mentorship and equity-free funding.

Taskbob provides a range of home services like home cleaning, car spa, handymen services, drivers, appliance repair and maids. The company also recently-launched at-home beauty services in Mumbai and is one of the startups from the city to be shortlisted for this program.

Google Launchpad Accelerator program is a six-month long mentorship program. The program includes $50,000 equity-free funding, two-week all-expenses paid bootcamp and access to Google's full suite of Launchpad initiatives and connections and product credits including Google Cloud and other products.

This year six Indian startups have been shortlisted for this program. These include, other than Taskbob, Programming Hub, RedCarpet, MagicPin, ShareChat and PlaySimpleGames.

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These startups will join 18 promising new companies from Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico. The two-week boot camp, starting June 13, will determine each startup's critical challenges, and then deploy precise mentorship, actionable solutions, and Google resources that will enable their product/ app to scale.

Aseem Khare CEO, Taskbob, said “It is a great platform for us to access word-class mentoring and advice to help us build scalable architectures and build a world class product. We look forward to learning a vast deal and use our experience to further develop our service.”

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